Sunday, September 18, 2011

Vancouver bibliography made easy.

This post is in continuation of my earlier post - citations and bibliography.
http://perjanya.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html.

The Vancouver method of referencing present in the above post requires slight alterations. This is generating the vancouver as the example sighted below.

For the authors mine A, Mine B, Mine C, article name  - "article is great", taken from journal-  "good journal" of year- 2090 volume -4, issue -1, pages- 456-445, it is showing the citation as, 

mine A MBMC. artivcle is grate. good journal. 2090: p. 456-445.

This is not the exact Vancouver required for Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka and many other journals.

An altered version of Vancouver style is created and is named as Rguhs.xsl, as it is more aptly generates the style required by RGUHS.
To use this -
Please download the file RGUHS.

and copy it into 
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style

In the bibliography section you will get "rguhs" as option. 

By clicking it, something like this, for the example sighted above, will get generated - 

mine A, Mine B, Mine C. article is great. good journal 2090;4(1): 456-445.

This is in proper Vancouver style for citing article in periodical. 

The major problem solved.

This also generates proper Vancouver for "book" and "book sections" -  But it is not showing page numbers in these categories ! Need to be fixed. 

I have not added referencing "thesis" into this. For all other things - conference proceedings, internet sources, electronic documents - its doing fair job. 

Regarding page numbers there's no confirmed style in vancouver. For eg. In some places one may find 112-119 and in some other places, it may be 112-9. This XML file - will show page numbers as 112-119. 

As always - it will generate the references in the order of their first appearance. 

Happy referencing.